Yeah, yeah...I had heard that...also heard that his last lecture was on the topic of infinity. Very apropos for him. And he deserves every sun-drenched moment of his retirement. Just saw a golden opportunity for his songwriting talents flash across my browser window reading the GP... Oh well.
"20-bit addressing, achieved by a 4-bit shift of the segment address plus an offset, requiring a memory architecture using two types of pointers (near and far), and a significant performance hit to programs requiring a swap-out of their code segment, resulting in a premium placed on containing executable code within a 64 KiB segment"
perhaps state things somewhat less ambiguously?
Although you indirectly make my point: it's been a long time...Turbo Pascal-long, actually...since the mere phrase "segment:offset" meant something real and viscerally painful to anyone who had to program within the 8088/8086 PC memory architecture. Bonus points for those folks who can remember how Windows 3 offered not one, not two, but three separate memory models to applications, and the particulars of each....
But thanks for the opportunity to clarify things. Gotta run; the senior special at the local buffet restaurant kicks in soon. And I get grouchy when I'm up late for dinner, say, past 6 p.m....
So what would be the logical difference of a Android apologist claiming their "innovation" was nothing more than making certain components of the iPhone goodness available at lower price points (and, by extension, significantly greater "masses") than those reached by Apple?
Mind you, you don't have to preach the virtues of iPlatform to me. I bought into that long ago...for technical, usability and aesthetic reasons. My iMac is a joy to use, as was its G4 predecessor, and the whole line of Macs prior to that. When evaluating the phone purchase that eventually became my iPhone I spent enough time with Android handsets to realize that they had a completely different aesthetic from the Mac platform I was used to, and I frankly thought the Mac one was a superior one for me. I don't hand Apple money on blind adoration...I hand them money because their products work well for me. I think engineers are capable of better design decisions than you seem to be esteeming them on, but that's a quibble.
I just think Steve was being more than a bit blinded by his own genius to have so ignored the origins of his own iconic work. He did exactly the same thing that the Android people are doing to him now and getting personally offended by it is borderline hilarious. Nothing more or less than that; doesn't change his genius or legacy, just reinforces that said genius had a sharper, darker edge to it that most people outside of the industry didn't see.
All of which is relevant in what way, exactly, to the argument that maybe a man who forged an iconic product with a substantial lift provided him by the work of others really has no philosophical high ground from which to launch an attack on those latter-day enterprises that attempt to do exactly the same thing with his work?
Ah, of course. Well, then, don't trouble yourself...you must have clothing to make, food to grow and electricity to generate. Better get back to that.
Or does the collected totality of knowledge residing in your cerebrum make such enterprise trivial for you? It certainly must be helpful in removing the doubt and uncertainty most of humanity must struggle through. Perhaps the apparently complete absence of contextual empathy helps free up your processing capacity as well.
On your way now, übermensch; go back to doing meaningful things. No need to waste your time pointing out the inadequacies of your inferiors; why bother since they are of no import anyway?
Spare me the 'tude, please. I was one of those masses back in the mid-80's and those early Macs were nowhere near mass-market affordable. ($2,500 in 1984, IIRC...roughly equivalent to $5K now. Before peripherals. That ain't mass market.) And don't even get me started on the Lisa.
All of which misses the original point: Steve, undeniable genius that he was, was perfectly comfortable adopting visionary work from others to his own purpose and use. A bit solipsistic of him to go nuclear on the Android folks...
Please. This is a company co-founded by Eric Lefkovsky. Some of us haven't forgotten Halo/Starbelly from the first dot-com bubble. Apparently he's working his magic yet again. The slight-of-hand doesn't even appear to be so very different from the 2001 state-of-the-art.
I share Imagix's annoyance. No excuse for this "we're working hard on bringing Google Apps support" bollocks, given that (on the whiteboard, at least), the apps-centric domain user ID is now properly recognized by the great majority of legacy Google services.
Apps were well-established long before Plus development started. Why wasn't the ID management system in Plus implemented with Apps support from the ground up?
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Yeah, yeah...I had heard that...also heard that his last lecture was on the topic of infinity. Very apropos for him. And he deserves every sun-drenched moment of his retirement. Just saw a golden opportunity for his songwriting talents flash across my browser window reading the GP... Oh well.
Where is Tom Lehrer when we most need his talents?
Nah, skip the tents ... just one more thing for the tanks to roll over.
...other than the ones working the Penn State athletic department account.
Thank the programming gods for QEMM...
Very well. Does altering the original to:
"20-bit addressing, achieved by a 4-bit shift of the segment address plus an offset, requiring a memory architecture using two types of pointers (near and far), and a significant performance hit to programs requiring a swap-out of their code segment, resulting in a premium placed on containing executable code within a 64 KiB segment"
perhaps state things somewhat less ambiguously?
Although you indirectly make my point: it's been a long time...Turbo Pascal-long, actually...since the mere phrase "segment:offset" meant something real and viscerally painful to anyone who had to program within the 8088/8086 PC memory architecture. Bonus points for those folks who can remember how Windows 3 offered not one, not two, but three separate memory models to applications, and the particulars of each....
But thanks for the opportunity to clarify things. Gotta run; the senior special at the local buffet restaurant kicks in soon. And I get grouchy when I'm up late for dinner, say, past 6 p.m....
segment:offset
You'd place a premium on code size too, if you had to deal with concepts such as the code segment, UMA and HMA.
Weren't you the one who called the original poster "naive, scared, lazy"?
Whoosh
So what would be the logical difference of a Android apologist claiming their "innovation" was nothing more than making certain components of the iPhone goodness available at lower price points (and, by extension, significantly greater "masses") than those reached by Apple?
Mind you, you don't have to preach the virtues of iPlatform to me. I bought into that long ago...for technical, usability and aesthetic reasons. My iMac is a joy to use, as was its G4 predecessor, and the whole line of Macs prior to that. When evaluating the phone purchase that eventually became my iPhone I spent enough time with Android handsets to realize that they had a completely different aesthetic from the Mac platform I was used to, and I frankly thought the Mac one was a superior one for me. I don't hand Apple money on blind adoration...I hand them money because their products work well for me. I think engineers are capable of better design decisions than you seem to be esteeming them on, but that's a quibble.
I just think Steve was being more than a bit blinded by his own genius to have so ignored the origins of his own iconic work. He did exactly the same thing that the Android people are doing to him now and getting personally offended by it is borderline hilarious. Nothing more or less than that; doesn't change his genius or legacy, just reinforces that said genius had a sharper, darker edge to it that most people outside of the industry didn't see.
All of which is relevant in what way, exactly, to the argument that maybe a man who forged an iconic product with a substantial lift provided him by the work of others really has no philosophical high ground from which to launch an attack on those latter-day enterprises that attempt to do exactly the same thing with his work?
Ah, of course. Well, then, don't trouble yourself...you must have clothing to make, food to grow and electricity to generate. Better get back to that.
Or does the collected totality of knowledge residing in your cerebrum make such enterprise trivial for you? It certainly must be helpful in removing the doubt and uncertainty most of humanity must struggle through. Perhaps the apparently complete absence of contextual empathy helps free up your processing capacity as well.
On your way now, übermensch; go back to doing meaningful things. No need to waste your time pointing out the inadequacies of your inferiors; why bother since they are of no import anyway?
Spare me the 'tude, please. I was one of those masses back in the mid-80's and those early Macs were nowhere near mass-market affordable. ($2,500 in 1984, IIRC...roughly equivalent to $5K now. Before peripherals. That ain't mass market.) And don't even get me started on the Lisa.
All of which misses the original point: Steve, undeniable genius that he was, was perfectly comfortable adopting visionary work from others to his own purpose and use. A bit solipsistic of him to go nuclear on the Android folks...
Ass.
...muttering something about "PARC"....
Please. This is a company co-founded by Eric Lefkovsky. Some of us haven't forgotten Halo/Starbelly from the first dot-com bubble. Apparently he's working his magic yet again. The slight-of-hand doesn't even appear to be so very different from the 2001 state-of-the-art.
I share Imagix's annoyance. No excuse for this "we're working hard on bringing Google Apps support" bollocks, given that (on the whiteboard, at least), the apps-centric domain user ID is now properly recognized by the great majority of legacy Google services.
Apps were well-established long before Plus development started. Why wasn't the ID management system in Plus implemented with Apps support from the ground up?
...the People's Front of Judea joining forces with the Judean People's Front.
That'll show 'em!
Everything in your Evernote account is also replicated to your machine, in a set of files you can include in a local backup if you wish.
Agreed. Great article. Knowledge and faith co-existing...who knew?
I'd be interested to learn if has he ever read "The Fire Balloons" and what impression it made on him, if any.
Wake me when someone performs it in Vogon...
Oddly enough, alcohol was involved in that decision as well...
Hmm...make me attractive?
Alongside the various other suggestions here, I'd add: ask your wife how _she_ wants to be remembered, if you have not already.
With those anger management issues of his, I'd think "Turín" would be more apropos.